#tbr jar

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's Fantasy TBR - Part 2

The 2023 favourites that are on my backlog..in this very specific category :D

Really looking forward to reading these! My partner is a high fantasy reader so I'll probably end up knowing the stories for these second hand if my partner gets to them before me. That's not a problem though, I'll forget the story 72 hrs anyway and I won't feel guilty about not reading them immediately lol.

#fantasy books #book tumblr #booklr #bookblr #books #book blog #tbr jar #tbr list #starling house #alix e harrow #emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #heather fawcett #tress of the emerald sea #brandon sanderson #the will of the many #james islington #a day of fallen night #samantha shannon #bookshops and bonedust #travis baldree

[stefito0o]

When I can't decide what to read I do a TBR jar 🤷‍♀️

#my photos #books #tbr jar #tbr list #bookshelf #booklr #reading

[someonelookingpraediti]

2023 TBR Jar

For 2022, I wrote a bunch of my TBR titles on to adorable origami paper hearts, and put them in a jar, with the idea that I could pull one out whenever I needed something to read. I did not pull out a single heart.

By halfway through the year, I realised I might have even read some of them, so it seemed kind of pointless (Although, when I opened the hearts at the end of the year, I had only read 6 out of 39 books!)

So, for 2023, a new plan! Instead of book titles, I've put in reading prompts. I'm determined to use the jar this year! And this year, the hearts are shades of orange, to match my decor.

#2023 #tbr #tbr jar #2023 tbr #to be read #booklr #bookish #misc

[ghoulishbuck]

I haven’t wanted to read anything but Yona of the Dawn so I haven’t read anything in five days while I’m “patiently” waiting for my loan to come in for the next volume.

But, I am writing prompts down in my notes app to remake a tbr jar. Hopefully, this time I use it more than two times.

#male reader #lgbt reader #queer reader #reader problems #lgbtq reader #books and reading #reading #tbr #tbr jar #bookworm #books #book #bookish #books & libraries #book blog #booksbooksbooks #bookblr #manga #yona of the dawn

[nofuckingbody]

Eleanor Oliphant is girl version of dwight schrute . is this the closest ill ever get to his brain???

#NEXT ON MY TBR #(maybe) stellas book #but for sure #lord of the rings #stop sophia #i also need to finish this is how you lose the time war and the bell jar......

[bookishfeylin]

I don’t think you truly understand how BAD Mrs. Maas’s fantasy books and the booktok copycats she spawned are until after you’ve broken out of that bubble. I genuinely enjoyed how unique Nobody’s Goddess was along with Noll being a refreshing protagonist, am living it up with The Promise of Aferi: The Wolf Queen Book 2, and I can’t wait for Beasts of Prey. Like I forgot how genuinely GOOD fantasy can be.

#I’m reading a mix of political theory and fantasy books to balance each other out (yes I am FINALLY finishing Discourse on colonialism) #But anyway the difference between these fantasy books and Maas’s is JARRING #Ofc my running theory is that with all of my current and tbr fantasy books having Black protagonists the standards are higher #so they have to be written better to even be allowed a chance in the white dominated publishing market #bookish rambles #Sometimes I think about Feylin's potential in the hands of another author #and I weep

[thewritehag]

Another tarot deck idea:

Anatomical Tarot

Not to be confused with the "Antique Anatomy Tarot," which is awesome, but not related to this idea

Major arcana would be body parts (organs, appendages, muscles, etc) and the minor arcana would be different conditions (rare, common, genetic, onset due to external factors, etc).

It'd be educational and interesting without being disturbing or ableist. It would celebrate humans, our adaptations, and humanity as a whole.

Few ideas:

Lovers = Lungs

The Fool = Heart

Tower = Skeleton (not for the jokey reason either, but it is funny)

Copyright can't stop this idea, but my lack of artistic ability certainly will, so this is for anyone who might want it.

#i may have come up with this idea when i was making a tbr jar for my tarot/oracle deck collection and i messed up a name #tarot #oracle #divination #shadow work #witchcraft #witchery #alternate name: anatomically accurate tarot

[spokenitalics]

wow. i really said 'it's too sunny and warm for my seasonal despression to kick off on its own so I'll have to induce it myself by reading the Saddest, Most Upsetting books i can find'

#next on my tbr is the bell jar ❤️

[nerdynatreads]

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march tbr || Actually x3 -- March TBR || Final Book Support Group & Mystery Madness

You can’t tell by this stack, but I’m gonna do it, I swear, I’m going to finish so many series this month! Apart from these books I’ll be reading physically, I also plan on picking up:

Harley Quinn Vol 4: A Call to Arms by Amanda Connor

Phaedra by Laura Shepperson

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

Love at First Spite by Anna E. Collins

The Plus One by Mazey Eddings

The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross

#march tbr #march to be read #march reading plans #march reading goals #book stack #tbr jars #tbr game #bookblr #booklr #book tumblr #booktube #booktuber #book youtube #studyblr #books to read in march

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's New Works by Black Authors TBR - Part 1

Category: Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction & Science Fiction

#legendborn #tracy deonn #book tumblr #booklr #bookblr #books #book blog #book recs #book recommendations #tbr jar #tbr list #the blood trials #n.e. davenport #children of blood and bone #tomi adeyemi #delicious monters #liselle sambury #chain gang all stars #nana kwame adjei brenyah #we deserve monuments #jas hammonds

[alexiaugustin]

yara reading the bell jar by sylvia plath. a woman of culture truly

#read a little life next queen😘 #fyi i havent read the bell jar yet but its been on my tbr since forever #druck

[alexisarchived]

Prompt 3: Share five books on your TBR list.

five??? from my 750 strong tbr list??? how about 5 i’m hoping to read before the end of the year lmao

1) Babel by RF Kuang

2) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

3) Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

4) Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

5) The Way of Kings, Part Two by Brandon Sanderson

#readingwithlunlun #reading challenge #tbr #my tbr is so long #babel rf kuang #the bell jar #darius the great is not okay #firekeepers daughter #the way of kings #books #reading #alex had a single thought

[lokidokireads]

kickstarting this new sideblog immediately with the book that I have been putting off for what’s probably almost a decade at this point: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

anyone who needs it, blacklist the tag lokidoki and you’ll never see me again ;)

#and on that note I’m still scared #but the TBR jar spoke so here we are #lokidoki #house of leaves #book liveblog #liveblogging #loki reads house of leaves

[bookthorns]

a tbr jar chose what i read for 4 days and i ended up in a reading slump 🤦‍♀️ ~ wolfsong, a lesson in thorns, a not so meet cute, today tonight tomorrow

a tbr jar chose what i read for 4 days and i ended up in a reading slump 🤦‍♀️ ~ wolfsong, a lesson in thorns, a not so meet cute, today tonight tomorrow

Hi everyone, welcome or welcome back to my blog! At the start of the month, I decided to do something a bit different that I never usually do since I’m a mood reader, I let a tbr jar decide what I read! This was originally meant to be a week-long challenge but I ended the week in a reading slump so you’re just seeing the first 4 days lol. I really enjoyed this experiment and I got some VERY mixed…

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#my tbr jar chooses what i read for a week #Rachel Lynn Solomon #Reading Experiments #Today Tonight Tomorrow #Week Long Experiments

[stefito0o]

The TBR jar decided it's time to read Babel 📚

#my photos #babel #r.f. kuang #reading #books #bookshelf #tbr #booklr

[space-writes]

So this post has me thinking. Because though the post and a lot of the comments talk about fic, this kind of scene-breaking PSA-feeling scene is something I run across in a fair amount of the M/M erotica/romance I read as well. (By which I mean a lot of indie/selfpub stuff, for clarification purposes) (don’t rec me ‘good m/m books’. my tbr is so long. my kindle is so full. im drowning. my god.)

In those, the ones that repeat are the ‘hey we’re both on PrEP!’ conversation, and the ‘when did you last get tested?’ conversation. The testing conversation also shows up sometimes in M/F that I read, and the one in there that also shows up is fairly naturally the birth control conversation. And first off—none of these are bad to have. None of them are automatically ruiners of good stories, or things you should cut!

What they often are is copy-paste scenes. They’re jarring when they happen because they aren’t written properly in character, and they take you out of the story and damage your connection to the narrative and to the characters. This is, in fact, he would not fucking say that time. This is not a problem of ‘including consent and safe sex is boring in smut’ (a whole other conversation). This is a problem of character voice and also bad dialogue.

Listen, I live here, on the internet. Bad smut is a time-honoured tradition here, and bad dialogue is at its wretched best in bad smut. I have an entire post in the works about writing good sexy dialogue—it’s hard! It’s hard to do!

(sidenote, this is why a lot of smut dialogue prompt lists make me cringe, because the dialogue is either poor, or so generic as to make lines that could be sexy in the right mouth sound poor.)

But the reason these consent-PSA scenes don’t work, and jar readers, is because you are putting words in your characters mouth that you want to say—for whatever reason; you think showing consent is important, you want to be clear about the consent given in the fic, whatever—but you are not saying them how your blorbo would say them.

I have an ongoing D/s romance series. Tens of thousands of words now. Twenty-four main fics, two unposted-yet novels, and a handful of side stories. The main relationship is a Master/sub relationship. They do a lot of kinky shit, and I can count on one hand how many times the couple sit down and talk about consent and they have never, not once, had a conversation on-page that uses the word consent.

What? Why! Space, why do you, person who is very passionate about proper consent and communication in BDSM play, not have any consent discussions in this BDSM fic?

Because those dialogues aren’t what the story needs. When it does, I include them in ways that are relevant to the scene and written in character, not as some obligatory cut-and-paste “do you consent?” “yes I do!” PSA. There is one exchange in fic 2 where the nature of the relationship is established. For the other six fics in that arc, I don’t have them sit down and negotiate scenes. It’s implied by a few lines that they talked about likes/dislikes off-page and then it’s back to the fun kinky shit.

And the thing is, they would say that. They would talk about boundaries and limits, and I could write an in-character conversation about that very easily. I didn’t, because that’s not the point of the story; the focus is on hot sex and emotional pining, and having a three-paragraph discussion about consent between them would get in the way of that.

(obedience readers i know at this point you’d read those two talking about the fucking weather but do not undermine my point here XD)

Listen, I’m just some guy. I take my writing seriously in that I want to be good at it, and I know a lot of people—especially in fic—are just having fun with it. That’s fine! Do what’s fun! But if you want to get better at writing porn, you can do that. I believe in you. You can have your enthusiastic consent and you can do it in character, in scene, and you can make it feel so natural no-one even notices you’re doing it because they’re too busy going ‘holy shit this is hot!’

This is kind of a rant but I just. am very passionate about good dialogue in smut. and about character voice. and i’m tired of reading the exact same PrEP-status conversation in my m/m novels. yes i get it author. you researched gay sex safety. im so proud of you. can we get back to the mediocre porn now.

#space has thoughts #writing #writeblr #smut writing #fanfiction #writing advice #(kinda) #please i just need everyone to get better at writing sexy dialogue #feel free to have a conversation with me about this but don't be a dick #pre-emptively: if you come on this post spouting anti/purity police bullshit you're getting blocked